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FTC Takes On Ads From Credit Monitoring Service Freecreditreport.com

New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Experian, Identity Theft, Credit Report, Free Credit Report, Transunion, Free, Ftc, Consumer Protection, Credit Monitoring Services, Consumer Credit, Equifax, Business News

The Federal Trade Commission is not amused. It has long believed that the company that owns freecreditreport.com is deliberately diverting people from...

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Mortgage Delinquencies: SEE Which Counties Have Been Hit the Hardest (MAP)

Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Loans, Consumer Credit, Mortgage Defaults, Student Loans, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, New York Federal Reserve Bank, Business News

Where is the mortgage crisis wracking the most damage? These handy maps, courtesy of the New York Fed, track changes in mortgage delinquency rates by ...

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Creditors Use Social Security, Disability Benefits Loophole

wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security Administration, Creditors, Social Security, Consumer Credit, Disabilty Benefits, Disability, Business News

A bipartisan group of legislators is pressing the Treasury Department to close a loophole that has allowed banks to seize Social Security and disabili...

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Has The Great American Shopping Spree Finally Ended?

Newsweek | Robert Samuelson | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumer Confidence, America Cunsumption, Consumer Habits, Consumer Credit, Business News

Transfixed by turmoil in the financial markets, we may be missing the year's biggest economic story: the end of the Great American Shopping Spree. For...

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